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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's different about the MacFarland that will open in 2017 as a neighborhood option and the MacFarland that closed in 2013 (?) due to underenrollment?  Seems like there are even more charter schools now drawing students away from MacFarland.[/quote]

It's going to have a dual language track -- that didn't exist before.

They are starting the school with that -- 62 6th graders admitted for that next fall, before the rest of the school opens.

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So if MacFarland can attract roughly 65 students in 6th, 7th, and 8th to a dual language program, that's a little less than 200 dual language students.  How many additional students do people expect to come from the neighborhood feeders?  The school's capacity is 610, IIRC.  Surely 400 more won't come from the neighborhood feeders, will they?[/quote]

Yes, they will.  That batch of schools doesn't get talked about here and it is hard to disaggregate the enrollment data because three(?) of the feeders are EC's, but there are more than enough kids to fill MacFarland, assuming that DCPS doesn't completely drop the ball. Most of the kids that are overstuffing Deal and Wilson live in this area as well. Peel off a few families here and there that might seek an alternative to the mega-school concept and then the whole enterprise becomes useful to everyone. The odds are still pretty long, but at least there is something like a road map in place.[/quote]

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